Martin Manser famous quotes

Take a look at the number of Bibles on your shelf. Think how grateful you are for the help you've received from various Bible translations and editions over the years.
-- Martin Manser

#Grateful #Thinking #Helping

God is and he has revealed himself fully in Jesus Christ.
-- Martin Manser

#Jesus #Jesus Christ #Christ

Christ is the explanation of all things, the key to life itself.
-- Martin Manser

#Christ #Explanation

The Bible is so deep! As the 6th-century church father Gregory put it: "Scripture is like a river...shallow enough...for the lamb to go wading, but deep enough...for the elephant to swim." It's humbling to be involved in projects that make the riches of the Bible accessible to Bible teachers and students.
-- Martin Manser

#Teacher #Father #Swim

The rains are rhythmic, coming religiously in the afternoons (after lunch has been eaten but before tea, so that the nights are washed clean-black with bright pinpoints of silver starlight hanging over a restless, grateful earth).

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.

I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.

I knew that even if I was able to call for help, I was in a place so remote that it wasn't likely there would be anyone who could help me. And even if there were, it could take weeks.

Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.

You can't help the poor by being one of them.

You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.